ArticleFoods (Basel, Switzerland)2026
Drying Route Influences Matrix Organization, Reconstitution, Flowability and Selected Phytochemical Indicators of Apricot Powder.
Article in Foods (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Apricot powder functionality after drying, grinding and sieving remains insufficiently understood. This study prepared powders from diluted Diaoganxing apricot pulp using hot-air drying (HAD), infrared drying (IRD), vacuum-pulsed drying (VPD) and vacuum freeze drying (VFD), followed by identical grinding and 60-mesh sieving. Moisture status, density, calculated porosity, particle characteristics, reconstitution, flowability, color, selected phytochemical indicators, ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) and supplementary electronic-nose fingerprints were evaluated. The drying route markedly affected powder properties: moisture content and water activity ranged from 7.23 ± 0.38% to 9.85 ± 0.02% and 0.218 ± 0.002 to 0.370 ± 0.007, respectively. VFD gave the highest calculated porosity (59.09 ± 0.84%), shortest wettability time (46.05 ± 1.71 s), highest water-holding capacity (3.63 ± 0.07 g/g), smallest color difference (ΔE = 1.12 ± 0.47), and highest TPC, TCC, AAC and FRAP values. VPD showed the best handling indices, with the lowest angle of repose (28.44 ± 0.34°), Hausner ratio (1.07 ± 0.01) and Carr index (6.33 ± 0.66%). Correlation/PCA indicated treatment-level co-variation, not causality. Under the tested processing conditions, VFD may be preferable for rapid reconstitution and the measured quality indicators, whereas VPD may be more suitable for powder handling.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.